I used VL a while back and now I'm back. I just installed VL7.0 on my old Compaq Presario 2170us (1G Ram, Celeron-2Gig, 80 Gig HDD) in a dual boot with XP. [Sorry but need XP for work].

I've encountered two things that I'd like help with:

#1 - When I start my laptop and just let it boot into VL, I get a dialog box stating something about a missing Xclient file and I'll be started in XTerm. I then get a small, 1/4 screen sized terminal window (black text / white background / no borders or window controls). I can type 'startxfce4' and I get the desktop with this terminal window on top of it....I then type exit and eventually get back to the log in window where I can enter my name / password and everything is normal after that.What is this missing 'Xclient file'?

UPDATE - SOLVED: I logged in as root, then right-clicked on the Desktop, went to Applications >> System >> Login and setup the Autologin for my username

#2 - I've never liked tapping on my touchpad, so I always disable it. In a terminal, I can type "synclient maxtaptime=0" and that disables tapping..... but I have to open a terminal every time I start up and make that entry....I downloaded 'gsynaptics' but I find that the settings don't 'stick' for the next bootup.How can I a) make the settings for gsynaptics stick or b) can I put the terminal command in a file that will auto-execute at startup?.

UPDATE - SOLVED: I gave up on making the settings for gsynaptics stick. After some searching on this board, I made a file named "rc.touchpad" in etc/rc.d, put this code in it:

Code:

#!/bin/sh# rc.touchpad

synclient maxtaptime=0

...then made it executable with "chmod a+x", added it to "Settings >> Session and Startup" and it works exactly the way I wanted. Very Cool!